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I’m the kind of girl who always has questions. I’m always wondering everything about the world. I love journalism, is all about investigating, reporting, and publishing information for other people to read.
My writing career (start) when I was really little. I made
stories about small horses and princesses. I still loved creative writing. But these days, I’m mostly into
(gather) information and reporting on
I’ve found out. I’ve learned a lot about the world.
My dad is in the entertainment business. Once I was talking with one of his friends, famous singer, and she said I asked a lot of good questions. She also said I should keep it up, so that’s what I did. Now I love interviewing
(act) and famous musicians and getting all the facts. Sometimes I’m nervous before an interview,
that pushes me to work harder. Later, when I’m organizing and paragraphs, it’s
(real) fun. I have a blog
I post videos of my interviews and write about the interviews. I hope to interview celebrities（名人）on the red carpet someday.
Shopping habits in America have changed a lot over the past few decades. Early ____ the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in __
__ heart of a town. This street was built with many stores on both sides. Shoppers walked into the stores to look _
__ what they needed. _
__, a change began to take place in the 1950s. Too many cars had crowded into Main Street while too __
parking places were available(可用的) to shoppers. __
_ the streets were crowded, shop owners began ___
__ look with interest at the open space from the city limits. When the first shopping center was built in the United States, an open space became __
___ they first had considered.
People ___（live）in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred __
_ in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four ___
_five hundred thousand words. But we do not need___
___ these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. __
__you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.
The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary ____（big）. Read as many books as we can. There are a lot of books ___
___（write）in easy English. You will enjoy them. When you meet __
_ new word, look it __
___ in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your __
_（much）useful book.
两千三百年前中国大哲孟子谓：“充实之谓美，充实而光辉之谓大，大而化之之谓圣，圣而不可知之之谓神。”此可总揽普天下所有大艺术之警世通言也，中、西莫不皆然。八大山人、伦勃朗、莎士比亚、陶潜，于美、大、圣、神皆有之矣，然其趋舍异途，绝无可融合处。比较艺术的目的，所望于后来者，为加大其距离，非缩小而趋同也。
The great Chinese philosopher Mencius, _______ lived two thousand and three hundred years ago, said, “Substantiality is called beauty; when substantiality is brightly displayed, it is called greatness; _
_______ greatness exercises a transforming influence, it is called sacredness; when sacredness is beyond our understanding, it is called divinity.” This extraordinary proposition is applicable to all the great arts of the world, ____
_____(include) both Chinese and Western ones. The great Chinese artist of the seventeenth century Bada Shanren (1626—1705), the great artist of the Netherlands Rembrandt (1606—1669), the great British ____
____ (drama) William Shakespeare (1564—1616), and the great Chinese poet Tao Qian (c.365—427), who lived between the fourth and fifth centuries, all possessed the qualities of __
_______, greatness, sacredness, and divinity. _
_________, the objectives they aimed at, the things they chose to cast _______
___(side) and their approaches varied greatly from one another. There is _____
_______ (absolute) nothing that can be synthesized. Comparing the objectives of art, I hope that future artists will _______
___ the distance between Eastern art and Western art, instead of reducing it or gradually converging one into the ______
_________.
Alice: Mr. Black, This is Alice speaking. I’m calling to ask you __ I can take the afternoon off today.
Black: Well, of course. _ can you tell me what the problem is, Alice？
Alice: OK, Mr. Black. My son is going to take part in a singing contest ____(hold) in Washington tomorrow. He’s got so many things to take __
__ he can’t go there alone.
Black: So you want to take __ there in your minibus？
Alice: Yes. And as soon as I put him up in the hotel, I__ (drive) back.
Black: Well, that would be __ too tiring journey. It’s nearly 300 kilometers away and it will take you at least six hours _
_ (travel) to and from Washington. Why don’t you stay there until you have seen your son perform？
Alice: But I have two _ (class) tomorrow morning.
Black: Don’t worry. I’ll tell Mary to take your classes _ . She’s always willing to help.
Alice: That’ll be nice. Thank you and give my thanks to Mary.
Black: You’re welcome.
It was ____ (freeze) cold as I was waiting at a bus stop in my hunt for a job. The bus had just pulled __
_ when a young woman walked up to the stop. She had on a T-shirt and slippers. When we talked she told me she lost her job and had no family in the area. I __
_ (dig) into my purse and took out $ 5 so she could get something to eat. I then took off my jacket and gave it to her. After I got on the bus, that was _
__the miracle（奇迹）of spreading kindness happened. I stepped up to pay _
__ fare and the bus driver told me in a big smile that it was on him. A lady called me __
__ to her seat and said, “What can I do for you to give back
_ I just saw?” I said_
_ (joke) a job would be nice. The lady said she had an assistant position vacant (空着) in her company and wanted me to meet the manager. _
__ turned out that the lady was _
__ (heading) of HR at this company. I went in for the interview and started working there. I never expected to get so much back in return!
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